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Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 26)

Editors: Ceccarelli, Marco

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8947-9

ISBN: 978-94-017-8946-2

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

May 22, 2014

1 - 10 of 15 Chapters

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Chapter 1Allievi Lorenzo (1856–1941)

Ceccarelli, Marco

Pages: 1 –17

[Lorenzo Allievi is best known for the Water hammer solution, which he proposed in 1903. But he also contributed to Mechanism Design with the milestone work ‘Cinematica delle Biella Piana’ (Kinematics of Planar Couplers), published in 1895 as an original work from application of the Burmester...
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Chapter 2Leonid Assur (1878–1920)

Evgrafov, Alexander; Kozlikin, Denis

Pages: 19 –40

[Leonid Assur solved a great challenge. He devised a classification system of planar linkages with lower pairs based on the theory of mechanisms. This system turned out to be remarkably productive, as it described not only all of the hinge mechanisms known at that time, but also showed how to...
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Chapter 3Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis (1781–1863)

Ceccarelli, Marco

Pages: 41 –56

[Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis was among the first pupils of the newly-formed Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, after which he transferred his expertise to the University of Pavia in Italy where he enjoyed a long life of teaching activity. He contributed to the development of professional skills with the...
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Chapter 4Chun-Hung Chiang (1920–2008)

Yan, Hong-Sen; Liu, Tyng; Chung, Wen-Yeuan; Tsai, Shyi-Jen; Lin, Ching-Kuo

Pages: 57 –62

[Chun-Hung Chiang was a pioneer in the academic field of mechanism and machine design in Taiwan. His major research contribution was in the study of spherical mechanisms. While associated with numerical computing methods going back to the 1970s, he introduced body guidance, path generation, and...
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Chapter 5Konstantin Vasiljevich Frolov (1932–2007)

Egorova, Olga

Pages: 63 –85

[Konstantin Vasiljevich Frolov was a well-known scientist and one of the pioneers of vibration study, including its influence on machines and human beings. He received many high honors and awards in his Motherland and great recognition abroad. He devoted his life to the development and promotion...
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Chapter 6Yeong-sil Jang (Unknown)

Nam, Moon-Hyon

Pages: 87 –113

[Yeong-sil Jang (called Jang Yeong-sil in the Korean style, Unknown) was a Korean inventor and mechanical engineer who served as chief court engineer under King Sejong of the Joseon dynasty (AD 1392–1910). He made two Striking Clepsydras (Jagyeong-nu) in the course of equipping the Royal...
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Chapter 7Karl Hoecken (1874–1962)

Kerle, Hanfried

Pages: 115 –141

[After the death in 1922 of Wilhelm Hartmann, the direct successor of Franz Reuleaux in the “Lehrstuhl für Getriebelehre” (Chair of Kinematics) at the Technische Hochschule (TH) in Berlin-Charlottenburg, there was a succession of interim professors, until Hermann Alt from Dresden finally got the...
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Chapter 8Michael Spirov Konstantinov (1921–1991)

Genova, Penka J.

Pages: 143 –157

[Michael S. Konstantinov was one of the founding fathers of IFToMM and was relevant to the development of MMS through achievements in Mechanism Design and early Robotics between 1950 and 1990.]
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Chapter 9Francisc Viliam Kovács (1929–2009)

Lovasz, Erwin-Christian; Rădulescu, Corneliu; Ciupe, Valentin; Gruescu, Corina; Maniu, Inocenţiu

Pages: 159 –185

[Francisc Viliam Kovács was an innovator in mechanism science and a pioneer in Romanian robotics. His contributions cover a wide theoretical and applicative area. Furthermore, he was a talented manager, who founded the robotics section within the higher education at the University “Politehnica”...
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Chapter 10Jan Oderfeld (1908–2010)

Zielinska, Teresa

Pages: 187 –199

[Jan Oderfeld contributed greatly to the field of machines and mechanism science, especially with his achievements in the development of aircraft jet engines, classification of machines and mechanisms, and introduction of optimization methods in mechanical design. He promoted engineering study...

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